This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Van De Kamp Coalition wins legal ruling aganist LACCD

** Blogger's notes: In the months ahead, court rulings such as the one highlighted below may become common place in the City of Los Angeles. The reason lies in the fact that the multi-billion dollars bonds approved for LACCD and LAUSD, saw tens of millions misspent or just given away to dubious special interests. Looking back on Mayor Villar's AB 1381 campaign, the intuitive political observer saw the mayor's attempt to control LAUSD as not a crusade to save children from a dysfunctional education machine, but a blatant attempt to gain access and control over construction money. Likewise here with the Van De Kamp Scandal, you see a mayor who has acted inappropriately in steering projects to his connected friends, which has caught the attention of "formal entities". More on that in the future---Scott Johnson.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

COURT RULES LA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT VIOLATED ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS IN TURNING VAN DE KAMPS CAMPUS OVER TO CHARTER SCHOOL AND THE MAYOR’S WORKFORCE PROGRAMS

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE AUDITS! AND WHY WE NEED TO ENFORCE LAWS WHEN LAWS ARE BROKEN. PEOPLE IN OFFICE ALWAYS SEEM PROTECTED FROM ANY LAW OR RULE OF LAW THEY VIOLATE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS TO CHANGE. LOOK AT THE AUDITS OF WENDY GREUEL SHE SENDS SOME LETTER OF REPRIMAND THEN NOTHING HAPPENS, RATHER WORTHLESS! WE NEED TO SET EXAMPLES IF WE WANT TO STOP THESE ABUSES. WE NEED TO MAKE EXAMPLES OF THEM BY REMOVING THEM FROM OFFICE BEFORE THERE TERM IS UP.